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The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee

“Thirty years of “crisis,” mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and
they still want us to believe in the economy… . We have to see that
the economy is itself the crisis. It’s not that there’s not enough work,
it’s that there is too much of it.” - from The Coming Insurrection

The original French edition of this savage indictment of contemporary
society became the principal piece of evidence in an anti-terrorism case
in France against nine individuals accused of sabotaging overhead
electricity cables on French railways. The French government has
proclaimed the book “a manual for terrorism” and allege that the
so-called “Tarnac 9” are its authors.

Written by an anonymous collective of French intellectuals and
academics, The Coming Insurrection is an incisive call to arms which
outlines ways of disrupting the circuitry of present-day capitalism,
while advocating a new approach to community. Rooted in the rioting and
unrest in the Paris suburbs, Greece and Belgrade, it rejects leftist
reform and draws instead on the ideas of the Italian Movement of 1977 to
attack consumerism, the cult of individualism and the 24-hour economy.

This English translation includes a new Introduction by The Invisible
Committee, written since their arrest and commenting on the current
economic crisis.

Paperback. 136 pp.
Distributed for Semiotext(e) by The MIT Press
Intervention series, No. 1